Lawyer of a 49-year old man who was arrested for allegedly setting fire to South Africa's parliament on Sunday say he is a victim of mistaken identity. Zandile Christmas Mafe who was said to have been caught with explosives according…

Niger has temporarily suspended an order to expel eight high-profile Rwandans relocated there from Tanzania, allowing them to remain in the country for 30 days, pending a resolution. They were political and military officials during the 1994 Rwandan genocide, and…

The Gambia tops the list of countries that will experience slow visa applications according to the UK’s Home Secretary. This comes following the country’s refusal to take back “criminals” from the United Kingdom. The UK’s top official has threatened to…

The Teachers Education Workers Union (TEWU), has declared a nationwide strike effective Wednesday, 5 January 2022 over the nonpayment of their professional development allowance. TEWU has been in talks with the Fair Wages and Salaries Commission since June 2019 on…

A notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji in Zamfara State, North Western Nigeria, has released over 60 kidnapped victims, following military raids on neighboring bandit camps in Zamfara and Sokoto forests. The notorious bandit kingpin who was reportedly the mastermind of…

Employment and Labour Relations Minister, Ignatius Baffour-Awuah, has announced a seven percent increment in the base pay of public sector workers for the year 2022. Ignatius Baffour-Awuah said the four percent increment which was announced earlier in 2021, will be…

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has said the Omicron variant of the COVID-19 pandemic has killed 100 people in Ghana so far. According to the Director-General of the health service, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, the Greater Accra Region is recording an…

Eleven individuals were arrested Wednesday in Abobo, in the north of Abidjan, following the seizure of 6,000 wooden planks by the Special Surveillance and Intervention Brigade (BSSI), a unit to fight against crime linked to forests and water resources. Atiewin…

A Nigerien Mayor and his driver have been arrested by the police for attempting to smuggle 214 kilos of cocaine to Libya. The Central Office for the Repression of Illicit Drug Trafficking (OCRTIS) said Wednesday. The drugs seized on Sunday,…

In Senegal, the Bureau of the National Assembly, the decision-making body of the Senegalese parliament, has described as inadmissible, the bill seeking to criminalize homosexuality in the country. Abdulahi Hassan reports.

President Muhammadu Buhari has ruled out the option of pardoning the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu. Kanu is facing charges bordering on treasonable felony instituted against him in response to years of the campaign…